What Do You Want Auditors to Know About Auditing SQL Server?
Right now it looks like I'll be putting a training session on for my local ISACA chapter on SQL Server...
2009-01-22
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Blog Posts
Mastering SQL Server Profiler E-Book Available for Free
After a lot of delays, my book on how to use SQL Server Profiler has been published by Simple-Talk Publishing,...
2009-01-21
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Notes from the January 2009 oPASS Meeting
We had our first oPASS meeting of the year last week with about 18 attending. Jonathan Kehayias was our featured...
2009-01-21
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Play the T-SQL Alphabet Game
I recently had the opportunity to play the T-SQL Alphabet Game, which was introduced to me by SQL Server MVP,...
2009-01-21
1,252 reads
Video: xp_cmdshell execution in SQL Server 2005/2008
The video I did for Jumpstart TV on xp_cmdshell execution has hit the front page. Registration on the site is...
2009-01-21
685 reads
Conficker / Downadup Worm One More Time
Hopefully by now everyone has seen this, but if not, here's a reminder to continue to spread the details. Denis Gobo...
2009-01-20
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Fake LinkedIn profiles with links to malware
This is a little old (five days based on the last update), but TrendMicro put on their blog about fake...
2009-01-20
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Getting Information Where We Want It
I’ve been running every day, over 100 days in a row now, and one of the things that has helped...
2009-01-20
849 reads
Netbooks & Alternatives
A while back I mentioned that Radio Shack had an interesting promotion on a netbook and debated at what price...
2009-01-20
1,298 reads
Networking - Part 3
Continuing the conversation I began in Part 1 & Part 2, today I want to ruminate some more on networking. I've...
2009-01-20
1,136 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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